The Dialogue of Civilizations as an Alternative to the Theory of the Clash of Civilizations An Analytical Study on Roger Garaudy's Moderate Global Project

Aoumr, Abbes; Khamri, Khaoula; Mohammed, Mohammmed Woeed

doi:10.37651/aujlps.2018.172364

	The Dialogue of Civilizations as an Alternative to the Theory of the Clash of Civilizations An Analytical Study on Roger Garaudy's Moderate Global Project
Journal of Anbar University for Law and Political Sciences
Article 8, Volume 8, عدد خاص, 2018, Pages 150-165 PDF (599.05 K)
DOI: 10.37651/aujlps.2018.172364
Authors
Abbes Aoumr; Khaoula khamri; Mohammmed Woeed Mohammed
Abstract
time, especially with the growing phenomenon of Islamophobia and the Islamic world conflict with Western countries. This is the topic of the moderate discourse represented by the world cultural project presented by the philosopher Roger Garaudy. This topic, which has long been the subject of controversy among thinkers who have spoken and took sides as supporters and rejectionists for a variety of reasons related to the nature of Western racist thought towards Islam.In the light of the importance of the topic and the problems it poses the above mentioned questions shall be explored in a kind of analytical archival approach through the vision put forward by Roger Garaudy. We will shed light on the nature of the cultural theses and moderate thought of Roger Garaudy which combine different religions in order to defeat Western philosophies and extreme hostility in its view of Islam .The study and findings of the whole research are based on the theoretical analysis of the thought of Garaudy and his ideas as expressed in his books and research.The main findings of the research are:• The efforts of all parties must combine , whether at the level of Arab governments, or at the level of the peoples among themselves, or at the level of the cultural elites in their enlightening role. There is a need to support civil society organizations in spreading awareness of the dangers of takfiri thought on our Arab societies and identity and to highlight its origins and the truth associated with the policies of leaders of racist Western countries towards our Arab and Islamic homeland in order to educate our youth about these machinations.• Establishing an Arab-Islamic international community that brings together all specialists in education who are highly qualified to develop purely Arab and Islamic educational curricula away from Western dominance on how our educational system operates. Work should be done to establish Arab academies of a very high level working within the framework of coexistence between religions and civilizations and supervised by honest specialists to qualify young people in various fields who spread later to the rest of the Arab and Western countries in order to preserve the Arab Islamic identity and disseminate awareness of the importance of dialogue far from extremism and takfir and other types of fanaticism to clarify the true image of Islam, not that promoted by the Western media which is saturated, as Roger Garaudy says, with hatred to all that is related to Islam.Recommendation:The establishment of international conferences dealing with the psychological and intellectual aspects, which brings together all the prominent international elites in the field of psychology from all religions and different cultures and ethnicities, in order to discuss in practical terms the tools to achieve ways to preserve the identities of the peoples and how to get rid of the cognitive frameworks of the Takfiri discourse and the psychological negatives of destructive intellectual globalization and its dominant cultural activities on the cultures of vulnerable or developing peoples.
Keywords
The Dialogue of Civilizations; alternative; Theory

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